Wayne State University Press: 405 books
Under Michigan
The Story of Michigan's Rocks and Fossils
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2005
Most people recognize Michigan by its mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula and the Great Lakes embracing the state. Underneath the earth’s surface, however, is equally distinctive evidence of an exciting history. Michigan rests on sedimentary rocks that reach down into the earth’s crust more than fourteen...
Crusader for Justice
Federal Judge Damon J. Keith
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
The Honorable Damon J. Keith was appointed to the federal bench in 1967 and has served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 1977, where he has been an eloquent defender of civil and constitutional rights and a vigorous enforcer of civil rights law. In Crusader...
by Bill Harris
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
A critical look at black identity in American history and popular culture as told from a performative African American perspective.
Zionism without Zion
The Jewish Territorial Organization and Its Conflict with the Zionist Organization
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
While the ideologies of Territorialism and Zionism originated at the same time, the Territorialists foresaw a dire fate for Eastern European Jews, arguing that they could not wait for the Zionist Organization to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. This pessimistic worldview led Territorialists to...
Michigan's Early Military Forces
A Roster and History of Troops Activated Prior to the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
Michigan has long been proud of its military service, but many of its early accomplishments are unknown to most of the state's residents. This book fills the void in our knowledge by bringing together an impressive array of information on Michigan's armed forces from 1775 to 1860. Here we find the name...
"Old Slow Town"
Detroit During the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Though it was located far away from Southern battlefields, Detroit churned with unrest during the American Civil War. The city's population, including a large German and Irish immigrant community, mostly aligned with anti-war Democrats while the rest of the state stood with the pro-Lincoln Republicans....
Justus S. Stearns
Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845-1933
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Near the turn of the twentieth century, “Pine King” Justus S. Stearns was Michigan’s largest producer of manufactured lumber and the owner of a prosperous coal mining operation headquartered in Stearns, Kentucky, a town he founded. Over the course of his career, Stearns would own at least thirty...
Detroit 1967
Origins, Impacts, Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
In the summer of 1967, Detroit experienced one of the worst racially charged civil disturbances in United States history. Years of frustration generated by entrenched and institutionalized racism boiled over late on a hot July night. In an event that has been called a “riot,” “rebellion,” “uprising,”...
Beyond the Windswept Dunes
The Story of Maritime Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Beyond the Windswept Dunes takes the reader into a world of maritime adventure as it was experienced by the sailors, passengers, rescue workers, shipping magnates, industrialists, and many other people whose livelihoods revolved around Michigan’s port city of Muskegon. At one time the leading edge...
"I Hope to Do My Country Service"
The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
In 1862 at the age of thirty-two, Centreville, Michigan, physician John Bennitt joined the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment as an assistant surgeon and remained in military service for the rest of the war. During this time Bennitt wrote more than two hundred letters home to his wife and daughters sharing...
Women's Hebrew Poetry on American Shores
Poems by Anne Kleiman and Annabelle Farmelant
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Although Anne (Chana) Kleiman—who died in 2011 at the age of 101—was the first American-born Jewish woman to publish poems in Hebrew, and Annabelle (Chana) Farmelant—who is still living and occasionally publishing—wrote a substantial body of Hebrew verse from the 1940s to the 1960s, their work...
Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews
Ancient Jewish Folk Literature Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
At the beginning of the twentieth century, many perceived American Jewry to be in a state of crisis as traditions of faith faced modern sensibilities. Published beginning in 1909, Rabbi and Professor Louis Ginzberg’s seven-volume The Legends of the Jews appeared at this crucial time and offered a landmark...
The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s
A Challenge and a Promise
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
In the early 1900s, Detroit's clubwomen successfully lobbied for issues like creating playgrounds for children, building public baths, raising the age for child workers, and reforming the school board and city charter. But when they won the vote in 1918, Detroit's clubwomen, both black and white, were...
The Politics of Magic
DEFA Fairy-Tale Films
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
From Paul Verhoeven’s The Cold Heart in 1950 to Konrad Petzold’s The Story of the Goose Princess and Her Loyal Horse Falada in 1989, East Germany’s state-sponsored film company, DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft), produced over forty feature-length, live-action fairy-tale films based on nineteenth-century...